We’re also struggling with this - spotting genAI content is getting harder and harder, especially if people use skills like Humanizer that helps avoid the typical AI signs.
From a community management perspective, I feel that allowing chatbots on your forum drains the soul of your community - if people wanted to talk to an AI, they would have done so already. They’re here because they want to talk to a human.
We haven’t found a solution yet; we did some tests with AI detectors, but it’s a cat and mouse game and they have too many false positives too. For now, we have implemented a forum policy (which we’ll start communicating more strongly soon), and rely on the help of our community moderators to spot, check and clean up.
But frankly, it’s exhausting, and I sometimes worry about the future of our communities if they get overrun by bots.
This is a reason that makes me avoid participating in subreddit communities. There are others reasons and I’ve never been very active on reddit, but nowadays it’s so plagued with bots that it draws me even more away from posting.
this very much reminds me of the situation with email in the late 90s and early 00s. As a system administrator for a small design firm, the staff had begun to use email in the course of doing their work and the spam email was so prolific that it made email almost useless. In those days it was whack a mole with the spam.
How was that eventually brought under control? Will AI usage eventually follow a similar course? Will it take dacades?
This seems to be the only way to manage it at the moment, there are too many variables to detect AI output with any sort of reliability and anyone claiming otherwise is selling snake oil. Lazy attempts are easier to catch, but otherwise we have to judge each post on the merits of its content without trying to guess how it was written.